that americans could be killed in a cafe in san francisco or in a restaurant in houston or at their home in bowling greene, kentucky, is an abomination. >> strom thurmond set the record, 24 hours for a filibuster but we haven't seen this in years and years and years. shannon travis is live in washington this morning. this is something to behold. >> reporter: you mentioned strom thurmond holding the record just over 24 hours. we haven't seen this in such a long time, it was quite bizarre. senator rand paul was elected in 2010 with support tea party support. he has libertarian leanings. he's long sharply criticized the administration's use of drones and targeted killings against americans overseas. he has a real problem, a real concern about the possibility of that happening here, killing americans on u.s. soil. with those droughns. that's basically the crux of this long filibuster that he had. john brennan is considered an architect of that drone program. you just played a little bit of a quote from rand paul questioning, again, that policy. but he also in this long, long filibuster, john